Friday, 3 November 2017

Fully Realized Planets

For the second time recently, a recent post has disappeared from the blog. This time it was "Fully Realized Planets" so I will try to reproduce it from memory -

Tolkien's Middle Earth and Stirling's Emberverse are each a single planet whereas Anderson's Technic History encompasses many planets. However, some of the Technic planets are as fully realized as if each of them were the sole setting of a series:

Avalon is presented in three short stories and a novel and an Avalonian visits Aeneas;

Aeneas is presented in a short passage of The Rebel Worlds and in the entire text of The Day Of Their Return and an Aenean was among the explorers of Gray/Avalon;

van Rijn spends an entire novel on Diomedes and Flandry also visits that planet;

Flandry and Kossara march with Merseians on the Dennitzan parliament after spending time in the Kazan and on the Obala.

And so on.

2 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I'll reproduce here the gist of my now lost comment to that blog piece of yours which somehow disappeared.

Even the too brief glimpses we get of Terra during the Imperial era are vividly presented or seen. The examples I had in mind being Admiralty Center, the Coral Palace, or Flandry's holiday cottage in the High Sierra.

Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,
Thank you.
Paul.